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'''Solar Alternatives and Associated Programmes''' (SAAP) is a nonprofit organization in the [[India]]n state of [[Bihar]] that produces solar devices, to save trees and to provide a dependable energy supply. Founded in 1996 by Fr. M.M. Mathew, SAAP uses the “solar bridge” technology developed in [[Germany]] by [[Wolfgang Scheffler (inventor)|Wolfgang Scheffler]].

==Beginnings and purpose==

M.M. Mathew developed an interest in solar energy while working with the student forum on the environment [[Tarumitra]] ("Friends of Trees").<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/Sunshine+man/1/78206.html|title=Sunshine man|access-date=2017-02-21|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818102656/http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/Sunshine+man/1/78206.html|archivedate=2016-08-18|df=}}</ref> He went on to [[Gujarat]] in early 1996 to study renewable energy under [[Wolfgang Scheffler (inventor)|Wolfgang Scheffler]], the inventor of the solar concentrated Scheffler community cooker. Mathew then, with the support of the Patna Jesuits, founded a solar manufacturing unit at St. Mary's church compound in [[Patna]]. The [[Ministry of New and Renewable Energy|Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources]] (MNES) approved this venture for use countrywide, and engineers from [[Germany]] and [[Switzerland]] assisted.<ref name=tribune/>

A vocational training program affiliated with the [[National Institute of Open Schooling]] was also set up. Among its initiatives the school trains around 15 students a year free of cost, half from the USA and UK, in using solar energy. It also provides local peoples consutation and advice at no charge.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120315/jsp/bihar/story_15249275.jsp#.V4lj4vkrIrg|title=Church preaches solar power mantra|newspaper=The Telegraph|access-date=2017-02-21|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222195649/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1120315/jsp/bihar/story_15249275.jsp#.V4lj4vkrIrg|archivedate=2017-02-22|df=}}</ref>

In 2014 SAAP hosted a group of students from the [[University of Dayton]] in the USA who focused on solar panels that ran refrigerators in clinics in rural areas, where loss of power causes vaccines to be ruined by the heat.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.udayton.edu/engineering/ethos/student-experiences/patna.php|title=Patna, India : University of Dayton, Ohio|website=www.udayton.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-02-21|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321010122/https://www.udayton.edu/engineering/ethos/student-experiences/patna.php|archivedate=2017-03-21|df=}}</ref> These strudents from [[Dayton]] took what they learned back to the [[United States|States]] and produced a solar-powered refrigerator that won the [[American Society of Civil Engineers]] 2016 award for the best sustainable engineering design by a student team.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.asce.org/dayton-students-solar-refrigerator-breakthrough-earns-asce-sustainability-award/|title=Dayton Students’ Solar Refrigerator Breakthrough Earns ASCE Sustainability Award {{!}} ASCE News|website=news.asce.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-02-21|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506165436/http://news.asce.org/dayton-students-solar-refrigerator-breakthrough-earns-asce-sustainability-award/|archivedate=2017-05-06|df=}}</ref>

==Research and outcomes==

The research and development wing of SAAP has developed a prototype solar-powered cycle rickshaw.<ref name="tribune">{{Cite web|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060226/society.htm|title=The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Education Tribune|website=www.tribuneindia.com|access-date=2017-02-21|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170422004104/http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060226/society.htm|archivedate=2017-04-22|df=}}</ref> SAAP has also developed a solar crematorium which saves on trees and is a cheaper option for the poor.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/jesuit-priest-planning-to-set-up-solar-crematorium-in-patna_100284697.html|title=Jesuit priest planning to set up solar crematorium in Patna|newspaper=Thaindian News|access-date=2017-02-21|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819232404/http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/jesuit-priest-planning-to-set-up-solar-crematorium-in-patna_100284697.html|archivedate=2016-08-19|df=}}</ref>

Tripolia Social Service Hospital, a private charitable hospital in Patna, is one institution that has been totally outfitted by SAAP solar technology, to sterilise medical equipment, sanitise the hospital’s laundry, heat water for baths and medicines, light outdoor pathways at night, and power a residential building and office. The solar dishes track the movement of the sun.<ref name=green/>

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